Bjarke Felbo, cofounder and CTO of Recognition Labs, a nonprofit using AI and behavioral science to bring people together.
Previously cofounded Rune, a mobile app that makes gaming more social, reaching 10+ million players. Created an open-source AI model now serving 300 million daily users.
Recognition Labs
Bjarke is building Recognition Labs with renowned behavioral scientists. A nonprofit by design, its incentives stay aligned with the people it serves.
Recognition Labs’ first product is moe, an AI coach that helps people strengthen the relationships they have and build the ones they want.
Rune
Bjarke cofounded Rune (Y Combinator W19), a mobile app designed to make gaming more social. Bjarke grew Rune to 10+ million players across iOS + Android and helped raised more than $10M from Y Combinator, Makers Fund, byFounders, and other notable investors. His cofounder, Sanjay, is now pushing Rune onwards in its journey.
MIT
Bjarke was a researcher at the MIT Media Lab, where he trained AI models that he used to study how people express emotions and opinions online. His research was published at top AI conferences and earned him the Marvin Minsky Fellowship.
Media coverage
BBC, MIT Technology Review, The Telegraph, Newsweek, Forbes, TechCrunch, The Register, HuffPost, TecMundo, and more
Academic collaborators (non-exhaustive)
Sune Lehmann (DTU), Nick Obradovich (MIT), Joshua B. Tenenbaum (MIT), Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland (MIT), Iyad Rahwan (MIT), Alan Mislove (Northeastern), Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye (Imperial College)
Published at ICML, EMNLP, NAACL, CoNLL, ECML-PKDD, and others.